Editor’s note: This commentary is by David Deen, who is the river steward for the Connecticut River Watershed Council and a state representative from Westminster. He is the chair of the House Fish, ...

An indicator species is a plant or animal that is used to gather information about an environment. Foresters, biologists, ecologists, outdoorsmen and women use indicator species to quickly gain ...

Quail are considered an indicator species for healthy rangelands and grasslands. Grasslands, the habitat for quail, are rapidly disappearing. Support for hunting impacts conservation funding derived ...

Understanding the ecology and distributions of species in Amazonia is hampered by lack of information about environmental conditions, such as soils. Plant occurrence data are typically more abundant ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — How healthy is the city of Los Angeles' environment? A new list of charismatic umbrella indicator species was released this week to give city officials a way to track any changes ...

THE LAST WEEKS OF WARMTH THAT THE MARSH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY IN PLYMOUTH, DESPITE 2022 DROUGHT ACROSS THE REGION, LIFE SHOWS LITTLE SIGN OF SLOWING DOWN. IT’S A WELCOME AND FAMILIAR PATTERN, BUT THOSE ...

1. The use of surrogates to identify protected areas is a common practice in conservation biology. The use of top predators as surrogates has been criticized but recently a strong positive ...

A large international team has genetically mapped glasswing butterflies found across Central and South America, rewriting the evolutionary tree and highlighting six new species. Scientists can now ...